How Macy's Photographers Are Working Around Camila McConaughey's Baby Bump

“They wanted to have a meeting, and I came to New York and met with them in their Macy’s headquarters,” she told PEOPLE. “But the best way to know me is to come to my house, so they came to Austin and we had a meeting in my living room, and we got to cook some food, have a glass of wine, get to know each other.

“A week before we were supposed to have a photo shoot, I found out I was pregnant!” the Brazilian beauty told PEOPLE Thursday night at a party celebrating her campaign at New York City’s No. 8.

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“I was over the moon, but my first reaction was that it was going to be a deal-breaker for the campaign — that they wouldn’t want a pregnant mom — but we worked it out.”

According to the model (in a campaign shot, left), “We’ve done some shots without the pregnancy and we’ve done some shots with, that won’t be retouched. We worked the angles and outfits that don’t show the belly.” After a break, she’ll “come back shooting again,” she shared. “I’ll be doing closeups.”

So will there be more from the rising star once baby arrives? “I’ll have to wait and see how this baby comes along and how I recover from that,” she shared, hinting, “I have a lot of projects.”